Ricardo Huisman bio

For several years he has been making installations with sound sculptures that can be experienced as “multi sensorial tactile interfaces”.

The so-called “touch-sound” produced by his “tactile sonic objects” includes composed soundscapes that reveal multiple associative dimensions, bodily sensations that could give rise to new spaces for imagination and knowledge. In a playful and experimental way, Huisman invites the visitors to interact within his art projects and to become co-creators of their own

As part of his ongoing artistic research to the “multi sensorial hearing perspective” he is gathering reactions, interviews, stories of people after experiencing his installations or taking part of the community sound art projects. In this way, he aims to rethink the ways we listen and act in our own sound habitat, including sonic heritage, reminiscences and narratives. His art work has included presentations at art festivals, museums, interventions in public space, health care organizations, universities, artistic research and community sound art projects; collaborations with artists, musicians, poets, architects, scientists and neighbours.

The “woollen sound pill as tactile sonic intervention”essay was published in the book “Hearing Places”, University of Melbourne / Cambridge-press. He was asked to write this essay after visiting the inspiring international “Sonic Interventions” conference at the ASCA, Amsterdam in 2005. It was the starting point of his growing interest for the still developing “sound studies”. As an autodidact he had presentations and artistic talks at international sound studies conferences. He is member of the “World Listening Group”, friend of NAISA (New Adventures In Sound Art) and the WFAE (World Forum of Acoustic Ecology) and active following European sound art and sonic studies organizations. (ambiance network e.o)

His “super sonic sound scape shoes” were presented at the ASCA (University of Amsterdam), during the Deep Wireless festival and SoundAxis festival (NAISA, Toronto), at the ARCAM (Architecture Centre Amsterdam), Taxandria museum, Turnhout, Belgium among other places.